I took these pictures with my brand spanking new digital camera. You know, before we were all walking around with a bajillion megapixel cameras in our phones.
Author: jasonherrboldt
From the Archives: My Millennial Lounge Phase
Around the year 1997 I graduated from my awkward ’90s electronica phase and started producing truly polished, professional sounding dance music.
Between 1997 and 2004 I recorded tracks for a few national record labels, and even heard a few of my own songs on internet radio stations and once, unbelievably, in a department store!
Continue readingFrom the Archives: Awkward ’90s Electronica
They say that anything worth doing is worth doing badly. This has been 100% true for my efforts in electronic music.
Here are some highlights from my wobblier days as a dance music producer, from about 1993 to 1997. (Back then I was recording under the name Wix.)
The Casual Elitism of Only Lovers Left Alive
Eve: “Yasmine. She’s Lebanese. I’m sure she’ll be very famous.”
Adam: “God, I hope not. She’s way too good for that.”
An elite indifference lurks at the heart of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Jim Jarmusch’s anti-love story between an unlikely pair of ancient vampires Adam and Eve, played by a criminally underfed Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton.
Throwback Thursday: High School MIDI Project
Here’s a blast from the past. Sometime in the late ’80s, while still figuring out how to sync up my MIDI studio, a friend and I made an amazing discovery: we could use a drum machine to drive the synthesizers!
Cool Bench
Check out this cool, mossy-covered bench we stumbled upon this weekend at the Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul.
Awesome! ❤️
Mixtape Alert: Artificial Skies 2 – Ultra Aeon
Album Alert: The West Texas Time Cult Massacre (EP)
My latest original music project is now available on Bandcamp.
Click here to stream or download.
Happy Halloween 2019! 🎃
Mixtape Alert: The Vanishing House
I’m delighted to announce the release of The Vanishing House, a two-hour collection of dark ambient and experimental offerings.
This release marks a long-overdue revival of a beloved annual ritual: the Halloween mixtape. I’ve been too busy with original music projects these last few years to produce a mixtape as well, but this year I made sure to find the time. My first three Halloween mixtapes were Dead Punks (2007), a tribute to early goth; You’ve Been Sick (2009), a love letter to asylum horror; and Pray For Death (2010), dedicated to religious horror and possessions.
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